Stencil



IINTTEE STnTEs PATENT Erica..

GEORGE IV. ROBINSON, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

STENCIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,464 dated November 20, 1894.

Application tiled July Z4, 1894.

To all wiz/0m it may concern.-

Be it known that l, GEORGE W. Rosi-Neon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State ofv New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stencils, and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear,f and exact description of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in stencils, or skeleton letters of such a character that they can be employed collectively for stenciling purposes or forv signs or other purposes for which letters are assembled.

The characteristic feature Of my improvement is providing the separate letters at one oftheir edges With disks or similar plates or strips of adhesive material, preferably of the same kind as that which constitutes the main body portion of the letters themselves, said disks or strips being caused to adhere to the letters themselves near one edge thereof and to project beyond said edge, so that the projecting portions may be utilized as a means of attachment of a next adjoining letter; whereby from the individual skeleton letters provided with the adherent disks or strips, a permanent sign or stencil may be readily made up.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a sign or stencil made up in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a sectional View thereof on the line 2-2 of Fig. l; and Fig. 3 represents a view of one ofthe letters with its adhesive disks attached.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views.

The individual stencil or sign letters are made up in skeleton form, as shown, in the usual manner of making stencil letters, and of any suitable material, as, for instance, oiled or paraftined paper. Upon the surface of each letter and near the edge thereof are to be attached adhesive pieces preferably in the form of disks 4, provided on their surfaces of contact with adhesive material, whereby they are caused tO adhere firmly to the surface of the letters and to project beyond the edge thereof, as indicated in Fig. 3.

In order to connect an adjoining letter, as

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for instance, the letter E (in Fig. l) to the letter N, the projecting portions ofthe adhesive disks 4 are moistened and thereby caused to adhere to theletter when the latter is superposed upon them. In like manner, a letter W may be added to the letter E, and so on, to make up any permanent stencil or sign desired.

It will be noted that the adhesive disks are connected to the stencil letters above and below the location ofthe cut-out portions of the letters. By reason of this fact, the cut-out portions of the adjoining letters can be 1ocated in close proximityto each other so as to diminish the spacing between them, while the fact that they are all connected permanently together when arranged in the order required for the stencil or sign gives the entire structure a stability and strength that it would not otherwise have.

It is further to be observed that the letters themselves all lie in the same plane by reason of the fact that the disks connecting the letters project from the one over the other. This construction enables the stencil to be applied flat upon the surface to be marked or upon the background to which it is to be applied if used as a sign.

It will, of course, be understood that What= ever the character of the cut-out portion of the stencil, t'. c., Whether it be in the form of a letter, a period, a comma, or other character, the same means will be employed for making the connection.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim is l. A stencil letter or character, provided at its edge With an adhesive connection for a succeeding letter, said connection projecting beyond the edge to which it is attached; substautially as described.

2. A stencil letter or character, provided above and below the cut-out portion of the i letter with adhesive connections projecting beyond the edge to which they are attached; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE W. ROBINSON. Witnesses:

JAMES MOKEE, JAMES S. M. LYNCH. 

